mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Jim Breen wrote:
>>>>> chuckers wrote:
>>>>>> Debito is probably going to *LOVE* this:
>>>>> I'm 80:20  about Debito.  80% of the time I think he's making a fool
>>>>> of himself, but 20% of the time I think he's saying and doing
>>>>> things that I wish more gaigins would say and do. Often we bend
>>>>> over backwards to accept and defend blatantly xenophobic
>>>>> actions in the interest of having a quiet life and not making
>>>>> a fuss.
>>>> I have had a number of assignments in Hakodate, Tomakomae, Sapporo and
>>>> Asahikawa that have involved visits with the local police.  You'd be
>>>> surprised how much Being White But Not At All Like Debit can become the
>>>> litmus test of whether Hokkaido Dou-kei will assist with information /
>>>> assistance or not.
>>>> I have met the two cops Debit "outed" at the Chitose Airport a couple of
>>>> times in "other" venues and projects, and find it impossible to believe
>>>> that the Great ID Caper could possibly have happened the way he writes
>>>> it.  As a matter of fact, it appears as though he stalked them, made
>>>> them obvious, and destroyed a major arrest operation that had taken
>>>> about three months to put together.  Several career criminals avoided
>>>> arrest that day thanks to his untiring efforts to be a complete asshole.
>>>>  I guess the fact that they didn't just shoot him on the spot shows how
>>>> truly calm, flexible, and collected the cops can be.
>>> Or maybe they have to pay for their own bullets.
> 
>> Bullets are one thing the cops always seem to have an adequate budget 
>> for ... hundreds of clay pigeons and paper human cutouts quiver in fear 
>> at the number of shots expended ...
> 
> Sorry, I thought we were talking about the JAPANESE police.

We are.  They're terrors out on the shooting range.  They practice 
constantly.  No one ever teaches them real-life applications of what 
they do in practice.  So, we're mostly safe.

-- 
CL